Curiosum Blog

Regardless of whether you've only just heard of the Elixir programming language and would like to learn it, or if you're a seasoned developer with years of experience, you need adequate learning resources to ensure steady progress in your career - and just equally as important is the need to be up to date with what's new & trending in the functional

Michał Buszkiewicz, CTO at Curiosum, was a guest in Podcast POIT ("Porozmawiajmy o IT"/"Let's talk about IT") conducted by Krzysztof Kempiński. The interview took place in Polish, but the content discussed during the meeting was extremely interesting, so we decided to make English transcription for you.

ElixirConf EU let me learn new Elixir tools and best practices, find out how Elixir is going to develop in the nearest future and meet with so many Elixir professionals from different industries in a friendly Warsaw hotel environment. That was great!

Outsourcing software development is popular but not easy. What might stop it from being successful?

Originally presented in Curiosum CTO Michał Buszkiewicz's webinar.

Every application contains bugs, and even if it doesn't, it will. And even if you're not a notorious bug producer and your code quality is generally good, the conditions programmers work in are often suboptimal - you will often find yourself pulling your hair out over code written years ago by someone no longer involved in your project.

If I was asked, what word best describes Elixir as a language in 2021, it would be maturity.

Elixir is not magic - despite being easy to write in and learn, you need a strong foundation. In this short article, I will give you my personal list of things that are necessary (or at least very much a “should-have”) for Junior Elixir developers.

Did we ever say we were going to use Phoenix LiveView to build a Messenger app with no JavaScript?

We lied. This time, we're going to tell you why, how & when you can and should kick in with your JS magic when using Phoenix LiveView.

As of November 2020, the latest Phoenix LiveView version is 0.14.8 - and the series has been updated to match it!

We've already bootstrapped our Phoenix LiveView-based Messenger app's database structure and a first LiveView page.

This time, we're going to improve real-time communication between the app's users using Phoenix PubSub, and use the Pow library to add secure user authentication.

As of November 2020, the latest Phoenix LiveView version is 0.14.8 - and the series has been updated to match it!